Limited Rights of Women

Marriage was not always as flexible as it is today. In the past, marriage was a very strict union between two people. Most of the time, in the old day, two people would get married for economic reasons, rather than for love. People would get married out of obligation, or family duties. People would also get married without knowing anything about their own spouse; the marriage was based solely out of family background. And? Do you have a thesis?

After the marriage, the husband’s and the wife’s responsibilities were very different. The husband would be the boss of the household, and the wife would technically be like the puppet. The wife would cook and clean and wait for her husband to come home like the good ‘ole “I love Lucy” days. But also, wives were also either mistreated or treated unfairly. Everything in the household technically belongs to the male, even the children. If the woman was to speak out, they’d be no justice, and the man would not be hold accountable for it. Since women had hardly any freedom at all, a woman who abandoned her husband or filed for divorce would be cast aside, whether or not it was the husband’s fault. Your phrasing is very confusing and makes it difficult for the reader to follow your train of thought. If a woman filed for divorce at the time when Kate Chopin wrote her story, the woman might be ostracized by society. A woman filing for divorce during the time Steinbeck wrote was unusual, but not unheard of. At that time women would still have been seen as being at fault for a failing marriage.

Being that it was this way, I want to relate those facts to the two stories I have read. One is “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck. To start off, “Story of an hour” is a short story about the feelings of newfound independence a housewife gains after hearing about her husband’s pseudo-death. Later on, she ends up dying of a heart attack caused by...

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.right to just treatment in case of polygamy
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.right to demand separate house
.right to deny doing all the chores of home
.right to dress
Economic rights
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Legal and political rights
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